JCaps 5.1.2 HL7 Connectivity issues
Using the HL7Inbound and HL7Outbound projects, we are experiencing several major HL7 eway connectivity issues:
Inbound:
1. The Enterprise Manager does not report the external connection state.
We need to deternime the real- time external connection state.
2. Alerts are not reported in the Enterprise Manager for external disconnects.
3. When the external disconnects, the eway accepts the re-connect, but does not recieve the data. the external reports a timeout.
In order to receive new data, we have to disable and enable the project.
4. When an external connects, netstat reports an additional LISTEN as well as the ESTABLISHED connection. There are also stale CLOSE_WAIT states for past connections. See netstat below:
testican.mgh.harvard.edu.8888 devican.mgh.harvard.edu.60314 496400 496400 CLOSE_WAIT
testican.mgh.harvard.edu.8888 devican.mgh.harvard.edu.61712 496400 496400 CLOSE_WAIT
testican.mgh.harvard.edu.8888 devican.mgh.harvard.edu.62561 496400 496400 CLOSE_WAIT
*.8888*.*00 491520 LISTEN
testican.mgh.harvard.edu.8888 devican.mgh.harvard.edu.63206 49640136 496400 ESTABLISHED
Outbound:
1. the outbound HL7 eway does not connect unless there is data to send.
We need to auto connect to the external as soon as the project is deployed.
2. The same external state connection reporting issue as the Inbound exists for the outbound as well.
No reports for realtime external connection status, or alerts.
We have been using datagate and egate/SRE for 15 years and have not experienced these type of major issues with HL7 eways.
If anyone has experienced any of these issues, and can provide feedback or possible recommendations, we would appreciate it.
As is stands now, JCaps for HL7 is unuseable.
Thanks for any feedback
Rich...
rlussier@partners.org
